Big carving

[h_sosa]

This is a soffit that was cut in three panels in a SB prt
@40 hr drawing in cinema 4D (in a very slow computer)
@85 hr cut time.
@30 hr clean up and sanding
Will have an indirect light between the ceiling and the soffit
Carved area size is 95"x95" in 1.25" alder
Vector file is 400mb
Outsourced the final clean up and sanding to a master carver to make it look just hand made.
Hope you like it, as i'm a big fan of this community

a new pic in page 3


H Sosa

[rww]

WOW!

That is impressive. Great job. Please post some more pictures when it is installed.

[kartracer63]

I'm speechless.

[meatbal80]

That is alot of time to spend, you must have stood and stared at the finished product with a great sense of acopplishment.

Very nice work!

[michael_schwartz]

Hope you got payed well for your time. Very impressive.

[khalid]

Amazing work..love to watch such a large beautiful carving work:)

[joe]

Horacio,

My complements with the project. I haven't attempted work of this size but know the design must have been quiet a challenge. Once you finished the illustration, what software did you use to generate the cut files and were there any hitches you had to work around?

Are you using Illustrator as the deign program?

Alder is an interesting choice. I know this wood comes in several grades. It can be very textured and knoty. Excellent choice with this grade.

Joe Crumley
www.normansignco.com (http://www.normansignco.com)

[gc3]

now that is what i like to see!! well done

[dvmike]

Man that is awesome!!1 i love the look of alder!! 85 hour run time!!!! This is just beautiful work!!!!!

[MogulTx]

Horacio,

That is beautiful work! Congratulations on designing and manufacturing suc a beautiful work of art! I know you will be proud of the effort and results for years to come!

Monty

[dlcw]

That is one impressive piece of art!

I'll bet the customer is going to be REALLY pleased with the results!

I am just SO GLAD your Shopbot didn't have a typical brain-fart (comm error) in the middle of the carving.

[h_sosa]

Assistant and I stared to everything nearby :( DURING the long runtime

[h_sosa]

Thanks for your kind comments, are really appreciated
Joe, my team (3 person) and I modelled the 3d file in cinema4D and generated toolpaths in partworks 3d, biggest drawback of using alder was we had to use 3/8" hex screws with big washers to hold down the heavily bent panels (2" at edges of last panel) as during the runtime our weather went from 40F to 85F

Don, the machine DID have a few hiccups during the runtime, but we finally mastered the File GoTo commmand and kept going fine. Now i know what those little proximity switches are for.

We would not have attempted this kind of work if I had not seen first the inspiring and amazing breadth of work in this forum, Thank you guys.

[joe]

Horacio,

I think Cimema 4D is an extremely difficult to master! What other uses do you use it for?

Long runs on these machine often have hickups. Glad to see you managed it.

Keep up the good work.

Joe Crumley

[h_sosa]

We operate as an industrial design office and Cinema is used here in 3d sketching and some animation, compared with other software this is fairly intuitive once you get the hang of 2d modeling.

[h_sosa]

Had to wait until everything was finished and backlight installed as needed,
going up had a scare as this was raised 10 ft on 6 padded sticks! and someone nicked the finish.


It's up in place, right for moms day
What a gift!

[dlcw]

WOW! That is beautiful.

[Gary Campbell]

NOW WE ARE TALKING CNC!!!

Great job Haracio, and thank you for posting.

[carlosgmarroquin]

Congratulations Horacio. That is just beautiful

[tallen84]

Wow! Excellent artwork!

[beacon14]

Jaw-droppingly amazing!

[tuck]

It's just super fantastic!

I hope changing the light bulbs ain't too much of a problem!

Some of the BEST EVER!

[myxpykalix]

oh i could have done that......:rolleyes: lol

That is absolutely beautiful. You should be very proud.

[h_sosa]

Thanks for you kind replies, as usual around here, our client didn't visualize quite well what she had ordered, unfortunately I couldn't snap a picture of the moment she finally realized it.

[sailfl]

Horacio,

Great job and it looks fantastic on the ceiling but it would also look good on a wall.

Thanks for sharing.

[kevin]

It looks amazing with out a dout

I admire your dictation to see it thought

Iam curios to see how your going to top that one